The answer is this statement:
<span>Perhaps it was these desperate, bitter men in the
West Stand at Arsenal who taught me how to get angry in this way; and perhaps
it is why I earn some of my living as a critic - maybe it's those voices l can
hear when I write.</span>
Valéry argues that Europe’s intellectual crisis is caused by the horrors of wartime and the awareness that civilization could die out and also the future could be worse than the past. The horrors of the Nazi invasions and occupations of European countries and atrocities they committed against the populace and disregard for culture and science prompted this thinking.
D.Going much slower
compensating for speed.
